2009/7/9 David A. Black <
dblack@...>:
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Sarawut Poaitwinyu wrote:
>
>> I have working on tag system and There is information like this
>>
>> "important urgent project 2009"
>>
>> i want to seperate into word, one word at the time is okay
>>
>> What is the easiest way to separate those string word by word, space
>> between each word might has more than 1.
>>
>> My idea is to use loop to check character by character that it is space
>> or not, and then cut the part, but i thought it might have easier way
>> that i don't know
>
> words = string.split
>
> When you call split with no argument, it splits on whitespace
> (including more than one character).
I am more like the "positive" guy - meaning explicitly defining what I
want returned. I would do
words = string.scan /\w+/
That way dot, question mark and other signs won't hurt. It may not
make a difference but it's probably good to see different approaches.
Kind regards
robert
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